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Notes from a lecture by Professor Cader

February 13, 2010 by Mike Shatzkin 82 Comments

Michael Cader did a brilliant analysis of Thursday’s New York Times piece on ebook pricing, published exclusively for paid subscribers to Publishers Lunch. The Times piece’s shortcoming was that it tended to sensationalize the news that the prices the public will pay for current brand-name ebooks will be going up. If you observe the book […]

Filed Under: Authors, Digital Book World, eBooks, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Farrar Straus, Goldman Sachs, Holt, Kobo, Macmillan, Michael Cader, New York Times, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Marketplace, Simon & Schuster, Sony, St. Martin's Press, Verso Media

The big guys don’t see the fundamental problem

December 17, 2009 by Mike Shatzkin 54 Comments

The rapid series of developments in the digital book space and my rising profile mean that I seem to be in an interview with a journalist just about every day. As I was yesterday. The focus of yesterday’s conversation was the Baker & Taylor“Blio” platform that I wrote about last week. How widespread did I […]

Filed Under: Community, Digital Book World, General Trade Publishing, New Models, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: Amazon, Chelsea Green, F+W Media, Google, Hay House, Interweave, Michael Cader, Publishers Marketplace, Scribd, YouTube

End of General Trade Publishing Houses (Completely Retold)

January 22, 2008 by Mike Shatzkin 1 Comment

I am not predicting that everybody will read on screens. You probably know that I’m a fan of the Kindle and perhaps you know that I’ve been an avid ebook reader on a Palm for almost 10 years. But I’ve learned that other people’s attachment to paper is greater than mine. And anyway, it would be a good thing for general trade publishers if there were more screen takeup; it would mean keeping the readers for their content and not necessarily any loss in margin

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End of General Trade Publishing Houses: Death or Rebirth in a Niche-by-Niche World

May 31, 2007 by Mike Shatzkin 10 Comments

What I hope to make clear is that the world of information and entertainment which constitute the ecosystem in which trade books live is changing in already defined ways. Even though we can only see a hundred feet in front of us an the journey is bound to be many miles, we know that many of the business forms and commercial models that succeeded in the 20th century will not make it far into the 21st. No big news there; we’ve watched media models come and go so often that we’re actually getting used to it

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